Weekly Commentary

March 3, 2010

In the last three weeks the markets have climbed 5%, while only experiencing one day of large downside volatility. This positive price trend was picked up on by the Stadion Investment Model relatively quickly. However, it took some time for the market breadth and investor sentiment measures to turn on and confirm this positive market movement. With our model now signaling for increased allocations to the equity markets, we will begin legging into the market. As we add positions, we will overlay our ETF Selection Model to determine the positions with the best recent relative performance, to insure that we will be able to grab as much performance as the market will allow. Once our positions are in place, we will use our ETF monitoring guidelines to help us capture as much of the positive trend as possible should the recent market performance continue. If the trend reverses however, we will be swift to move to a more defensive position to protect our clients assets.

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